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Organic "Natural" Search Engine Optimization versus Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Advertising

  • Organic "Natural" Search Engine Optimization versus Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Advertising
    Organic Natural Search Engine Optimization

    versus

    Pay Per Click Search Engine Advertising

    By Matt Hockin
    Interactive Marketing, Inc.
    http://www.interactivemarketinginc.com

    When you purchase visitors or clicks from a search engine, this is called pay-per-click (PPC) search engine advertising (or PPCSE). Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Advertising allows you to quickly get top search engine placement by bidding (paying) for keywords related to your product or
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    By Matt Hockin
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    Postcard Marketing Done Right

  • Postcard Marketing Done Right
    Say it with a post card. A well designed, colorful, high impact postcard in the mail box of your prospect is your best ticket to a new customer. For your existing customer, a marketing campaign which includes frequent post cards is the perfect start to new sales - this is one of the key small business marketing strategies.

    For the recipient:

    You don't have to open a post card!

    You see it right away, the bright picture is not hidden from view by an envelope.

    The mes
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    By Joy Gendusa
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    Sales As A Positive Experience

  • Sales As A Positive Experience

    No matter what your age or stage in life, some words come with preconceived meaning. "Sales" is one of them. For most people, it means being put in a position to have to buy something you don't want at a price you can't afford. Therefore, how do you conduct a critical element of the small business marketing process without incurring the negative impact of the word "sales"?

    It starts with you. Check your own attitude about the word. What does "sales" mean to you? How do you feel when you...
    By Don Osborne
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    Service Marketers; Hows Your Packaging?

  • Service Marketers; Hows Your Packaging?

    When a shopper picks up a product in a store, whats the first thing they notice? The packaging, right? The same holds true for someone buying a service.

    Yet instead of a folded carton with colorful graphics, you are the packaging for your service business. Intangible points of contact, including your clothes, your briefcase, maybe even your breath, all burn a lasting image in your buyers mind.

    Here are some of the more common packaging elements all service marketers should pay a...
    By Jay Lipe
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    Small Business Marketing - Clarify Success

  • Small Business Marketing - Clarify Success

    When you hear the word success does it bring on visions of fame and fortune for your business? Have you clarified and articulated what that success will look like for your business and how youll know when youve achieved it?

    Whats the definition of success for your business? Most small businesses are selling their time and expertise to deliver a service to their clients. So the question I want you to reflect upon is this What does success look like?

    Now before you start ans...
    By Kevin P. Dervin
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    Small Business Marketing - How Important Are Your First Words?

  • Small Business Marketing - How Important Are Your First Words?

    "What do you do?" It just might be one of the most asked questions there is, at least here in America.

    Are you prepared to answer this question and make a positive impression for your business at various networking (and social) events you attend?

    How about this one... When you go to a business event and everyone in the room gets to make a 30-second introduction, do you feel like you know how to gain attention and interest from any potential prospects or referral sources in the roo...
    By Kevin P. Dervin
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    Small Business Marketing Magic

  • Small Business Marketing Magic
    Once upon a time, in 1969, there was a young woman who had a dream of starting her own company. She had ideas, talent and work ethic to spare but what she didn't have was cash. After careful research she found that marketing would cost more than all the other aspects of her business combined. Out came the credit cards, family loans and savings. After a few months the woman realized that she had mortgaged her future to the hilt and she still couldn't make enough money to buy her way out of debt. ...
    By Bonnie Jo Davis
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    Small Business Marketing Secrets: Look Like Sizzle, Be The Steak

  • Small Business Marketing Secrets: Look Like Sizzle, Be The Steak

    You've heard marketing and advertising gurus quip, "Sell the sizzle, not the steak." Advertising initiatives best reach their target audience with benefits and the "wow" effect, not the value or features of their product or service. This may work well to get customers in the door. But once they're in, you better have some substance. How can you ensure you uphold the integrity of your business and still maintain the "Wow Effect"? It just takes well executed strategic steps for business AND per...
    By Monikah J. Ogando
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    Small Business Marketing, According to Seinfeld

  • Small Business Marketing, According to Seinfeld

    What could Seinfeld possibly have to do with marketing a small business? As it turns out, all small business owners could take a few lessons from the show that brought us such popular phrases as Man Hands and master of your domain.

    The Coffee Shop Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine spent countless hours in the coffee shop, talking about nothing. You should spend some time there as well, but instead of talking about your parents or your date last night, get together with other sma...
    By Will Dylan
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    Small Business Marketing: 10 Steps to Help You Plan for a Successful 2006

  • Small Business Marketing: 10 Steps to Help You Plan for a Successful 2006

    By Debbie LaChusa
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    Small Business Marketing: Are You Planning to Fail?

    • Small Business Marketing: Are You Using a Net or a Spear

    • Small Business Marketing: Are You Using a Net or a Spear
      When I was back in college, over a decade ago, I decided that when I was done I would run off to Alaska and work in the fishing industry. The lure of hard menial labor and the outdoorsmans life seemed so tantalizing to me after having toiled away in academia, not just for the past four years, but for most of my life.

      I learned as much as I could about the fishing industry: working on boats, at the docks and in canneries. I learned that one of the popular techniques used by commercial
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      By Jeremy Cohen
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      Small Business Marketing: Specialize or Generalize?

      Small Business Marketing: Specialize or Generalize?

      There have been many great points raised on both sides of this discussion. In order to make a final decision, we must look at how the business world is moving and at the purchasing patterns of the consumers who will be utilizing your services.

      The Internet has changed the way people look for services (personal and professional). For example:
      If you do a search in Yahoo for a Personal Coach you will get 1.4 million matches.
      If you refine your search to Personal Life Coach you w
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      By Leslie Durand
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      Small Business Marketing; Abstract Philosophical Discussion

      Small Business Marketing; Abstract Philosophical Discussion

      • Our bodies work like our small businesses. They work best by word of mouth, networks, referrals, etc. The Internet also works this way to serve the most good thru networks, portals and referral links; of course the Internet could work better, but all in all we are well served by using such systems and we are most hurt when those systems are used against us. For instance a virus in the blood stream, an International Terrorist in an airliner, a drug dealer in your neighborhood or a computer vir...
        By Lance Winslow
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      Small Business Savvy: Reaching Key Big Business Decision Makers

      Small Business Savvy: Reaching Key Big Business Decision Makers

      As a solo entrepreneur or small business owner, one of our key challenges can be reaching key decision makers in larger companies. Getting to the right person who can seal the deal can be a frustrating experience, especially if you dont have a game plan. Here are three ways to connect with the right people.

      Cold Calling

      In this age of voice mail, reaching prospects by phone has become more difficult. Cold calling will most likely reap stronger results if youre trying to ...
      By Janis Pettit
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      Sound Marketing Advice: Be Careful Not To We All Over Yourself

      Sound Marketing Advice: Be Careful Not To We All Over Yourself


      By Ron Abbott
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    • Survival Tips For Small Businesses

      Survival Tips For Small Businesses

      You may be in Mail Order, Direct Mail, or you may be a local merchant with 150 employees; whichever, however or whatever---you've got to know how to keep your business alive during economic recessions. Anytime the cash flow in a business, large or small, starts to tighten up, the money management of that business has to be run as a "tight ship."

      Some of the things you can and should do include protecting yourself from expenditures made on sudden impulse. We've all bought merchandise or ...
      By Dominic Ferrara
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      The 2 Step Lead Generation Machine

      The 2 Step Lead Generation Machine

      Cold calling doesnt work, its no fun and often you end up with leads, or worse yet, clients, that dont really value what you do.

      Having said that, leads are the lifeblood of growth, without a lead, there is no client.

      Set-up a 2 step lead machine and you can say goodbye to cold calling while generating all of the qualified, permission based leads you can handle.

      The basic idea behind the 2 step approach is to create one or more valuable reports, workshops, evaluations, tr...
      By John Jantsch
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      The 5 Traits of Baby Boomer Business Owners

      The 5 Traits of Baby Boomer Business Owners

      As a practitioner and student of Small Business Marketing, I was recently contemplating ways to enhance my business. I found it fascinating to realize that over 95% of my customers and hot prospects were Baby Boomers who own a small business.

      With this group identified as my target demographic, it was important to understand them better. Who are these people? What attracted them to me? How can I work with them most effectively? I found the following five characteristics common among th...
      By Bill Gluth
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      The Art Of Fear Free Advertising

      The Art Of Fear Free Advertising

      Is fear of failure an issue when you commit valuable money in advertising?

      Well how about if I showed you a way to remove this fear and you know that you would be able to spend money advertising KNOWING you would get a return?

      Is that a valuable lesson?

      Course it is!

      So, how do you do it?

      The answer is testing!

      It's simple really.. Instead of sending out 1000 sales letters for example. Send out 500. In these 500 have 5 different headlines so 5 x 100 = 500...
      By Mark Vurnum
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